Posted on 01/20/2016 2:32:52 AM PST by WayneLusvardi
It is Jacksonians who, as I wrote in Special Providence back in 2001, see the Second Amendment as the foundation of and security for American freedom. It is Jacksonians who most resent illegal immigration, don’t want to subsidize the urban poor, support aggressive policing and long prison sentences for violent offenders, and who are the slowest to “evolve†on issues like gay marriage and transgender rights.
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I seriously doubt Jackson’s opposition would have supported faggots - evolved or other wise
To me, the most telling thing about this article was the author’s use of two words - “uncredentialed whites.”
Not by his own choice but in description of the supposedly-educated elites and dilettantes that populate both the Democrat and GOPe power circles in their thinking about the unwashed masses that want to protect our borders, believe in God, Country and USA.... you know, the bitter clingers.
These self-appointed masters of our society actually loathe having to get out in front of the masses and actually campaign. They detest us. You can see it in Hillary’s campaign, and you can see it in Jeb Bush’s campaign. They’d much rather work behind the scenes and steal the nomination outright.
Riiiiiiiighttt... that’s why Dems have those Jackson dinners up until ...last year. Democrats still trying to stick us with their human rights mistakes.
In their egotistical and overweeningly arrogant little minds, if you do not have an advanced degree from an Ivy League school, they consider you a lower form of life not quite worthy of the human being status and merely an insignificant stage prop to provide setting in the grand theater of their lives.
They certainly do not feel the great unwashed in flyover country are capable of independent thought or managing their own lives - much less thinking correct thoughts on the great issues of the day.
“To me, the most telling thing about this article was the author’s use of two words - uncredentialed whites.”
I will put my “credentials” up against the baboon authors.
I don’t think the author thinks this. It is his description of how elites think about the unwashed masses.
With the exception of The Indian Removal Act, I think Jackson could be listed in the top tier of American Presidents.
THAT is the huge blot on his record.
But he did kick the federal bank to the curb. He did leave office with the United States DEBT FREE. Just to name two accomplishments.
But to me, The Indian Removal Act trumps the good things he accomplished.
I think he had a terrible dilemma on his hands with respect to the Indians. Either he removed them by force of the government and resettled them, or the settlers would’ve removed them, and in the latter case, it would’ve resulted in even more deaths (and then Jackson may have been obliged to come in on the side of the Indians with military force, in which case he would’ve been finished politically along with his party for going against the settlers).
What Jackson did with the Removal Act was to deport a non citizen population that tended to theft, vandalism and acts of terrorism.
Pre 14th amendment, not citizens. Pre transcontinental railroad, not an easy trip.
Andrew Jackson was the last democrat worth a flip.
re: Pre transcontinental railroad, not an easy trip.
Mot an easy trip ate all. ESPECIALLY with a bayonet at their backs.
Sorry my friend, but the INDIAN REMOVAL ACT and the Trail of Tears cannot be excused.
Or in my mind explained.
The Indian Removal Act, which was directed against some ancestral relations on both sides of my family, should stand alongside Slavery, Jim Crow, and Japanese-American Internment Camps as universally recognized icons of the one truly racist Party. Generations of obfuscation by the Ministry of Truth, the academic-news media combine controlling information and thought in this country, have prevented that. Now their targeting has simply shifted to “White Privilege”, showing again that their reliance on race based politics is ingrained and instinctive. Every Democrat should be slapped hard in the face with this at every opportunity. It might open a few eyes, or burst a few blood vessels. Frankly, I’m good with either outcome.
I agree. Jackson was a great President along with James K. Polk. The last great Democratic Presidents.
“subsidize the urban poor”
Legalized slavery. Govt: What’s yours is ours to (possibly) give, whatever % we choose, to another of our choosing.
Yep, 5th and 13th alive and well in the Land of the Free.
Give me Adams or Clay.
But "Jacksonianism" is a scam -- at least in foreign policy, the field in which Mead originally applied the term. "Jacksonians" get upset about foreign interventions, international organizations, and "nation building."
Okay, but then they get so juiced about unilateral action and application of US military force that they end up dragging us into still more foreign conflicts, confident that we can win them on our own (which we often can't).
They skip "nation building" -- which may well be useless -- but we keep going back to do the same policing over and over again. "Jacksonianism" is a scam that gets us into more conflicts than we'd get into otherwise.
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